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Santa Cruz, California: There are about 1,200 to 1,700 homeless in Santa Cruz, 3.5% of the city; many had lived or are living in Ross Camp [22] (200 people) and San Lorenzo Park (up to 300 people; closed in late 2022 [23]). Homeless tent city in Fremont Park, Santa Rosa, California, in August 2020. Tents of homeless people in San Francisco, 2017
In addition to "homeless and poor families" a number of protestors stayed at the encampment temporarily and participated in antipoverty protests led by the KWRU. [147] In August 2013, 20 homeless women and children slept outside a homeless intake building on Juniper Street to protest the lack of available shelter beds at the start of the school ...
A homeless person in Los Angeles sleeps on the street, 2010. According to a 2019 Los Angeles Times poll, 95% of voters called homelessness a serious or very serious problem in the city, more than for any other issue. [93] L.A. County officials reported that in 2019 there were over 39,000 homeless people in the city. [94]
The legislation asks for a report from the City Administrative Officer and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority that would map out where people are living in RVs and identify potential ...
This year, the first quarter saw 1,817 families, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The increase is stressing a system that was already under intense strain .
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) helped clear a homeless encampment in Los Angeles on Thursday while threatening to take away state funding from the state’s counties that do not do more to curb ...
The Sacramento Bee notes that large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco both attribute their increases in homeless to the housing shortage. [44] In 2017, homeless persons in California numbered 135,000 (a 15% increase from 2015). [45] In June 2019, Los Angeles County officials reported over 58,000 homeless in the county. [46]
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass vowed to house thousands of people in her first year in office to reverse the city’s homelessness epidemic. She’s gotten thousands off the street, but unhoused ...